Press releases

• The Spanish Data Protection Agency has been awarded the ‘Services to the Citizen’ category by Association @aslan.

• The European Data Protection Board has agreed, at the Agency’s initiative and unanimously, to start work on defining age verification guidelines on the Internet.
• The Agency put forward in December an age verification system that protects children and adolescents from access to inappropriate content

• AEPD requires the cessation of the collection and processing of special categories of personal data as well as the blocking of data already collected. AEPD has received several complaints denouncing insufficient information, collection of data from minors and preventing the withdrawal of consent

• The Spanish Data Protection Agency has presented its priority lines of action to promote effective protection of children and adolescents on the internet.
• Cooperation with national and international bodies responsible for this matter is very prominently included in the Strategy.
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• The AEPD and the National Data Protection Commission of Portugal (CNPD) have held a new ‘Iberian meeting of data protection authorities’ to exchange information and experiences on current data protection issues
• The Director of the AEPD and the President of the CNPD have agreed on the need to adopt

• The AEPD has been the winner in the category Innovation in the public sector for its project ‘Practical initiatives to protect children on the Internet with healthy, positive and safe environments’.
• The awards will be presented on November, the 28th at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid and the winning

The AEPD has a virtual assistant that facilitates quick and easy answers to the most frequent data protection and privacy questions
 

• The jury has valued the work done in the field of data protection and privacy, advocating for legal and technological solutions to minimise the negative impact of misuse of the Internet and social media, especially in the context of sensitive content and the protection of minors